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Renoir

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Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki's father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world....

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Namrata Joshi The New Indian Express Hayakawa wins the day by casting the amazing Yui Suzuki as Fuki. She has just the perfect mix of the idiosyncratic and imaginative, innocent and vulnerable to make the inner struggles of the character strongly resonant. Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Justin Chang The New Yorker What distinguishes Hayakawa's approach is a principled refusal of the obvious; she doesn't strain to make Fuki relatable, or diagnose her, or problematize her occasional flights of fantasy. Jun 2, 2025 Full Review Dave Calhoun Time Out It’s as interesting for what it doesn’t show as for what it does. This is a story of terminal illness, but it exists in and around the main events rather than depicting them head-on. It’s a tender, loose and slightly whimsical tale. Rated: 4/5 May 21, 2025 Full Review Padaí Ó Maolchalann In Review Online If all [the film's] little details don’t accrue into something particularly impactful in the moment, their power lies in their sincerity and astuteness, and in Hayakawa’s sensitive rendering, Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Tina Kakadelis Film Obsessive Renoir creates nostalgia for the moments Fuki is living through in a way that asks the audience to remember their own thorny adolescence as it is unperceptively shifting toward adulthood. Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Maxance Vincent Loud and Clear Reviews Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir is a complex and affecting drama, thanks in no small part to a moving lead performance from Yui Suzuki. Rated: 3.5/5 Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews
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Chie Hayakawa

Director

Yui Suzuki

Fuki Okita

Hikari Ishida

Utako Okita

Ayumu Nakajima

Toru Omaezaki

Yumi Kawai

Kuriko Kita

Ryota Bando

Kaoru Hamano
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Synopsis Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki's father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world....
Director
Chie Hayakawa
Producer
Eiko Mizuno Gray, Jason Gray
Screenwriter
Chie Hayakawa
Production Co
Loaded Films
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
2h 2m